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What's new here, as it happens.
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Hindi, the twentieth language
Hindi joins the list, with its own cast, its own script to learn, its own voice and its own course. That makes twenty languages to learn, and twenty to learn from — and Hindi is the first from outside Europe and East Asia.
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Russian, the nineteenth language
Russian joins the list, with its own cast, its own alphabet section, its own voice and its own course. That makes nineteen languages to learn, and nineteen to learn from.
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Lessons at a chalkboard, level by level
A course that runs A1 to C1, written one step at a time as you take it. Your teacher works at a board, builds her examples out of your own mistakes, and never announces what's coming.
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Letters, a few at a time
A new alphabet is what stops most people before they start. Letters teaches Cyrillic, Greek, kana and the rest in small sets, with a bar under each one showing how well you know it.
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Nothing has to be typed
Every drill that asked you to type an answer can be answered by choosing one instead — and a chosen answer counts for half a step, because recognizing a word isn't the same as being able to write it.
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Friends: a handle, a code, and everyone's milestones
Pick an @handle, show someone your code, and their thousandth word turns up in your feed. Following is one-way, there's no messaging, and nobody can search for you.
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Words read aloud, whatever device you're on
Most phones and computers have no voice for Ukrainian, Czech or Greek at all. The words are now read by a voice on the server instead, so everybody hears them.
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Every language, from every language
The app used to explain Ukrainian in English. Now it explains any of nineteen languages in any of them — so you can learn Japanese from Spanish, or English from Polish.